The Bugs Bunny Road-Runner Movie (originally entitled "The Great American Chase") is a 1979 Looney Tunes film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and animated wraparound, hosted by Bugs Bunny.

"Rabbit Seasoning" [only a brief clip is used in the beginning] Elmer Fudd shoots Bugs' hole and asks him his catchphrase "Eh, what's up Doc?"]

"Hare-Way to the Stars" [Bugs Bunny accidentally arrives in space by a rocket. He soon discovers that Marvin The Martian wants to blow up the earth with his illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator and he finds himself chased by instant martians.]

The original cartoons and bridging scenes were directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. The "Bugs at Home" bridging sequences were animated by Irv Anderson, Manuel Perez, Phil Monroe, Lloyd Vaughan, and Virgil Ross; and the backgrounds were supplied by Maurice Noble, Irv Wyner and Ray Aragon. A running gag is established at the film's beginning; Chuck Jones had put the "That's all folks!" card in the wrong place, which Bugs corrects as "That's NOT all Folks!". This happens again at the end; That's all Folks! was being written again, but Bugs stops it and makes it rewrite as "That's not quite all Folks" before the credits roll. Right at the end, just before the Warner Communications Company logo, the same catchphrase appears but written as "That's really all Folks!" (with "really" being underlined). On top of the logo is Bugs, and he says, "Eat your heart out, Burt Reynolds!"

Notes

On the original early 1980s VHS of the film at the start of the end credits, the original working title of the film "The Great American Chase" is presented unlike its 1997 VHS re-release which uses instead the movie's final title.

Edits

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When the film aired on The Family Channel in 1995, a number of edits were made:

Part of Bugs Bunny's introduction to "Duck Dodgers and the 24 1/2th Century", including the beginning scene of the short.

Scenes with Haussan in "Ali Baba Bunny".

Most of "Rabbit Fire", cutting from when Daffy's beak spins around his head to the scene where Daffy dresses as a rabbit while Bugs dresses as a duck, and then the short ends after that scene.

Wile E. Coyote introducing himself to Bugs in "Operation: Rabbit".

At least one broadcast on The Family Channel cut out "Duck Dodgers and the 24 1/2 Century", "Robin Hood Daffy", and "Duck Amuck", as well as all introduction footage to those shorts. Other airings kept the shorts intact.